How have WE benefited from the health care plan and how did Insurance companies benefit?

I supported the health care plan whole heartedly until Obama cut a deal with the insurance industry to drop the Public option, and the next day insurance stock went up. No Joke! I have an illness (preexisting condition) that I take no medication for, will likely never really get sick because of it, but am not able to get an individual health insurance policy in CA because of it. The health care plan put off the issue of people with preexisting conditions until 2014, and then without a Public Option, at whatever cost the Insurance companies want to charge. The Health Care Plan sounded good, but in the end was a subsidy for the insurance industry sold as HISTORIC and an Obama win. It's diingenuous at best, and unsustainable and not a good deal for consumers. Without the Public Option, only the insurance companies really won on the health care plan that passed. Hillary had suggested that people could choose to join the same plan that Senators and Congressman are in, what happened to that? That would have been a Public Option, but Obama let that slip away.